Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA, FAAR, is Principal of Reed Hilderbrand
Associates, Inc. He is also widely published as an author and critic
on twentieth century landscape architecture practice, contributing
essays in numerous books and journals and serving on the editorial
board of Harvard Design Magazine. His monograph Making
a Landscape of Continuity: The Practice of Innocenti & Webel
was recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects and
its Boston Chapter and also won the AIGA Award for Outstanding Book
Design. His monograph The Miller Garden: Icon of Modernism,
published with photographer Alan Ward and architectural critic David
Dillon, was part of a series awarded the ASLA President’s
Honor Award in 2000. Gary holds degrees from SUNY College of Environmental
Science and Forestry and the Harvard University Graduate School
of Design, where he has taught since 1990. He was elected Fellow
of ASLA in 2001. He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of
Landscape Architecture at Harvard and is a Fellow of the American
Academy in Rome.

Beth Dunlop
Architecture criticThe Miami Herald
Miami, FL

Beth Dunlop is an architecture critic and author. She is the architecture
critic of The Miami Herald, and is a regular contributor
to House & Garden Magazine (where she writes a column
entitled House of Worship, as well as other articles) and to Metropolitan
Home, among other publications. She is the author of numerous
books, including Miami Trends and Traditions, Building
a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture, A House for My
Mother: Architects Build for their Families, and Florida’s
Vanishing Architecture. Her work has garnered numerous journalism
awards. She also wrote the film script for a public television documentary
entitled “Vanishing Florida”, which won a regional Emmy.
She is vice chair of Miami Beach’s Historic Preservation Board,
acting chair of the Miami Design Preservation League, an advisor
to Manitoga/The Russel Wright Design Center, and a member of the
International Women’s Forum. She is formerly a trustee of
The Cushman School and of the Seaside Institute. She has lectured
at a number of universities and museums, including the National
Building Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the
Peabody Essex Museum. She has been a juror for the National Trust
for Historic Preservation honor awards as well as other design competitions.
She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Graham Foundation. A graduate of Vassar College, she is
married to William Farkas. They have one son, Adam, a senior at
Yale University, and they live in Miami Beach, Florida.

Edward A. Feiner, Honorary ASLA, is the director of the Washington
center of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. He was appointed Chief
Architect of the United States General Services Administration (GSA)
in 1996. He is the Senior Advisor to the Administrator of GSA and
the Commissioner of the Public Buildings Services (PBS) regarding
Federal architecture, design, and construction policy and innovation.
He provides national leadership for the design and construction
activities of the agency, which includes the development of Federal
courthouses, office buildings, national laboratories, border stations,
computer centers, and special-use projects. GSA has an inventory
of more than 350 million square feet. Current design and construction
work in progress has a value of over $10.5 billion executed by 11
regional offices. Prior to joining GSA in 1981, Mr. Feiner served
as program manager of the U.S. Navy’s shore establishment
master planning program at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command.
Earlier in his career, Feiner worked for Gruen Associates as well
as M. Paul Friedberg and Associates. He also taught Architectural
Technology for over 10 years at the Northern Virginia Community
College. Feiner is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
and was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture
by the AIA in 1996. Feiner was awarded a Graham Foundation Fellowship
at Catholic University in 1972. Mr. Feiner lectures at the Harvard
Graduate School of Design each summer and speaks at many schools
of Architecture and Design during the academic year. He is a graduate
of Cooper Union (Bachelor of Arts in Architecture – 1969)
and the Catholic University of America (Masters of Arts in Architecture/Urban
Design – 1971).

Terry Harkness is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the
University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign. Before joining
the university in 1981, Harkness was senior vice president in charge
of design and planning at H.O.K., Inc., St. Louis, Missouri. Harkness’
recent work focuses on creating designed environments within a regional
biotic and cultural context. This work explores the expression and
interpretation of cultural landscape and natural processes as landscape
stories. By a careful sifting and expression of cultural histories
and natural phenomena, a wellspring of vocabulary, pattern and order
can become accessible for place experience and appreciation. Harkness’
The Regional Illinois Garden was included in the Harvard
Graduate School of Design exhibition and publication, “Transforming
the American Garden.” This project is in a continuing series
of projects exploring cultural context, natural process and designed
landscapes. Recently, Harkness has been one of the co-chairs, co-editors
and exhibitor of the special issue of Landscape Journal, “Econ-revelatory
Design: Nature Constructed/Nature Revealed”. This issue is
the catalog for a national traveling exhibition that will conclude
its three-year run at the Smithsonian’s National Building
Museum in Washington, D.C. In 1990, he was awarded the Outstanding
Educator Award by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
for design research and design education. The American Society of
Landscape Architects inducted Harkness as a Fellow for professional
instruction and executed works in 1994. American Planning Association
and American Society Landscape Architects recognized his work for
the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid and for Lacledes Landing/St.
Louis Riverfront redevelopment for national design and planning
awards while practicing in St. Louis.

Suzanne Turner, FASLA
Baton Rouge, LA

Suzanne Turner is a consultant for historic and cultural landscapes,
particularly those of the South. Recent projects that she has collaborated
on include Drayton Hall in Charleston, South Carolina; Oakland Plantation
in Natchitoches, Louisiana; Ragdale House in Lake Forest, Illinois;
and Mepkin Abbey in South Carolina. Turner is co-author of The
Gardens of Louisiana: Places of Work and Wonder, and numerous
book chapters and articles on the history, preservation, and interpretation
of the cultural landscapes of the South. Turner recently retired
as professor emerita from Louisiana State University where during
her twenty-five year tenure she served as interim director of the
School of Landscape Architecture, coordinator of its graduate program,
and associate dean of the College of Design. Turner is co-founder
and board president of the Baton Rouge Economic and Agricultural
Development Alliance, which runs a farmers’ market, a public
market, and provides outreach to low-resource small farmers.

Mia Lehrer is the founding principal of the Los Angeles firm, Mia
Lehrer + Associates. Born in San Salvador, El Salvador, Mia received
her Masters of Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of
Design at Harvard University. Following her education, Mia gained
valuable experience by working on large-scale public projects such
as the World Bank Coastal Zone Project in El Salvador, as well as
intimate gardens for residential clients. Today she is internationally
recognized for her progressive landscape designs – unique
amalgamations of graphic configurations, found objects, architectural
pottery, and rich textures – and her advocacy for environmentally
sensitive and people-friendly public space. Mia leads the ML+A office
through the design and development of a diverse range of ambitious
public and private projects that include urban revitalization developments
such as San Pedro Waterfront, large urban parks such as Vista Hermosa
Park, and complex commercial projects like the biotech campus in
Thousand Oaks. In recent years, several interesting historic renovation
projects have been added to her repertoire; these include Union
Station in downtown Los Angeles, the glamorous Hollywood Roosevelt
Hotel, and Santee Court, an urban housing development that pays
tribute to its historical context in L.A.’s fashion district.
Committed to her profession and education, Mia is actively involved
in several organizations. She is on the Board of Directors at TreePeople
and the Collage Dance Theater. She is a member of the International
Federation of Landscape Architects, American Society of Landscape
Architects, Hollywood Design Review Committee, and has served on
the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Council. In addition
to being published in international journals, popular magazines,
and newspapers, the work of Mia Lehrer + Associates has been included
in several important museum and gallery exhibitions. Mia often lectures,
traveling as far as Brazil and China to share her insights and philosophy
on public landscape design.

Todd Johnson, FASLA
Design Workshop, Inc.
Denver, CO

Todd Johnson, ASLA, maintains that, in his practice, his goal is
to attract and nurture smart people to become great leaders of landscape
architecture. "My greatest accomplishment," he offers,
"is to make my colleagues more capable than I was." Others
may demur on that point, citing the distinctive built work that
has been one of Johnson's trademarks throughout a career in which
he has led the design efforts behind many award-winning projects
that have earned recognition from ASLA, the American Institute of
Architects, Urban Land Institute, Congress for the New Urbanism,
and Progressive Architecture Magazine. Projects like Larimer
Square, the Denver Riverfront Commons, 16th Street Mall Extension,
and Jefferson County Government Center have become major destinations,
attracting thousands of visitors and enriching multiple lives. His
enthusiasm for the profession has created public awareness of landscape
architecture as key to shaping urban and natural landscapes, exerting
a positive influence on communities and the environment. Johnson
is passionate about the idea of connecting people with nature and
people with people. He credits his brother Craig with being a great
mentor, sharing "great joy in the profession and defining that
joy in three parts: making places, being sensitive to relationships
of all living things, and teaching/preaching this knowledge daily."
His leadership in the profession has been guided by three principles
that define the essence of his work: maintaining stewardship of
the land, creating distinctive built works, and enlightening young
people and colleagues about the responsibility and power of the
profession his work has embraced and enhanced.

Bill Marken
Editor-in-ChiefGarden Design Magazine
Los Altos, CA

Bill Marken is editor-in-chief of Garden Design, the leading
magazine of stylish gardening, innovative landscape design, and
gracious outdoor living. Marken has spent his professional career
in magazine and book publishing. He served for 15 years as editor-in-chief
of Sunset Magazine, the Western regional lifestyle magazine
with a circulation of 1,500,000 and an emphasis on home and landscape
design, travel, and entertaining. He was founding editor-in-chief
of Rebecca’s Garden magazine, based on the popular
syndicated television show, published by Hearst Corp. As editor-n-chief
of eHow.com, he led the contextual commerce site to the Nielsen/Net
Ratings’ top 10 information sites; he is the author of How
to Fix Just About Everything, which grew out of eHow.com. He
also was co-author of Gardening for Dummies (second edition),
editorial director of Williams Sonoma’s Taste magazine,
and consulting editor and columnist for Garden.com. Marken received
a National Magazine Award for Service to the Individual and the
American Horticultural Society’s Horticultural Communication
Award. He has served as President of the League to Save Lake Tahoe
and as a board member of the American Horticultural Society. Marken
is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He lives
in Los Altos, California, with his wife Marilyn. They have four
grown children.

Barbara E. Wilks, FAIA, ASLA founded W Architecture and Landscape
Architecture in 1999 to create a design-oriented, multidisciplinary
practice. With special expertise in urban design, public, and institutional
projects, she practices as both an architect and landscape architect.
Barbara has received many design awards for her work, including
four recent national awards, and was honored with election to the
College of Fellows, American Institute of Architects in 1999. She
has lectured and taught as a visiting critic at the University of
Maryland School of Architecture, Cornell, Catholic University, Pratt
Institute and Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited locally
and nationally. She has contributed to several publications, and
curated an exhibit on public open space. Before forming W Architecture
in 1999, she was a founding principal of Cho, Wilks & Benn in
Baltimore for 20 years

Karen Jessup
Chair of the Board of Advisors, Northeast
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Providence, RI

Karen Jessup is a preservation activist and landscape historian.
For many years, she taught landscape history and historic preservation
as a tenured professor in the School of Architecture, Art and Historic
Preservation at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, where
she directed its study abroad program in Britain for architecture
and preservation students. Karen is currently chair of the Board
of Advisors, Northeast, of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
and former advisor to the New England Garden History Society. She
has been involved with many local, national, and overseas non-profit
preservation and conservation organizations. Karen is an Emeritus
Fellow of the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American
Civilization at Brown University; a Visiting Research Fellow at
the Centre for Conservation Studies, DeMontfort University, England;
and a former Fellow of the New England Consortium of Academic and
Research Libraries. She is a former adjunct professor in the graduate
school of American and New England Studies, Boston University. Karen
regularly lectures to graduate students at the University of Bath
in England, and serves as a guest architecture and landscape critic
for universities in England and the United States. For a Ph.D. thesis,
she is in the final stages of researching late nineteenth-century
New Englanders who traveled extensively in Britain and derived landscaping
inspiration from sites visited on their journeys and contacts made
on these trips.